A member of Penryn's planning committee who has been appointed to a body which canvasses local planners to protect the countryside from development will now have to register any potential conflicts of interest.
Councillor Gill Grant told a meeting of the committee that she had been appointed as a trustee to the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), whose campaigns target local councils and other planning bodies in order to prevent development on the countryside.
Councillors were told that after advice from the county executive for the Cornwall Association of Local Councils on whether this would create a conflict with her membership on the planning committee, Mrs Grant will have to make a general declaration at planning meetings that confirms her membership.
She will also have to make an independent decision on each planning application as to whether to declare an interest.
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